There are countless ways of shading digital art—it’s one of the reasons why there are so many distinctive styles, even when the artist is trying to paint semi-realistically. However, to create your own style of shading, first you need to know the rules. In this tutorial I’ll show you a universal method of shading that…
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I’ve often been asked if I wrote a book about drawing animals, and I haven’t (yet), but this course is really close to it! It’s over 4 hours of narrated video, explaining everything: from the pose and proportions, to the muscles and surface anatomy. The videos are pre-recorded, but this course is supposed to imitate…
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Learn how to get a free graphics tablet for Christmas!
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If you want to paint something realistic from imagination, you only have one thing to learn—shading. But it’s a more difficult and complex subject than it sounds. The truth is, it requires you to install a real 3D rendering software in your brain! And until you develop this software, you have no other way than…
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In many digital drawing tutorials you may be asked to “change the Blend Mode of the layer to Multiply”, or something along these lines. What is this about? In this short tutorial I’ll show you what Blend Modes (or Blending Modes) are and how to use them to your advantage. I’ll also do my best…
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When you paint fur, what you’re actually doing is painting the shadows between the strands of hair. These shadows appear even if the light is weak and ambient, so you can paint them before you decide on the direction of the main light source. In this tutorial I’ll show you how I “sculpted” long fur…
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There’s this concept in photography called “three-point lighting”, where you use three types of light to properly accentuate the form of your subject. We can use it in art as well, slightly adjusting it to make it fit the natural light conditions. In this very short tutorial I’ll explain this concept to you, using my…
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During the last lighting study I learned how important it is to define the lighting early on, before adding any details. So I decided to apply this knowledge to the process of painting another one of my colored big cats. Here’s how I did it! 1. Basic Sketch First I found a reference photo for…
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Tracing has a real bad name in the artistic community, and for a good reason—an artist can spend years to learn how to draw a realistic human from imagination, and a tracer can replicate the same end result in minutes. However, there are other forms of tracing that have nothing to do with pretending you…
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There are plenty of beginner tutorials for people who want to learn how to draw. But it’s like there’s no order to them—one’s teaching you perspective, other’s about color theory, then there’s one about anatomy, and another one about physics of light. And the worst thing is that each of them seems to require knowledge…
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